Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in Jerusalem 2,300 years ago.

In the town of Józefów in Poland, a mom, while gardening with her baby, came across a strange object in their garden. Upon further investigation, the object was determined to be an ancient ax.

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It… ...

Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes have long prompted questions about interspecies mating. Two studies shed light on when that occurred — and when ancient humans left Africa.

Ancient Greek philosophers used paradoxes for all sorts of reasons, from sharpening their dialectical skills and showing philosophical opponents were talking nonsense to serious philosophical ...

More information: Madeleine Murray et al, Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period, Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.002 Journal information ...

Egyptologists have excavated a nearly 9,150-square-foot astronomical observatory in modern-day Tell el-Faraeen dating back to the sixth century BCE—the first and largest of its kind from that era.

Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, where evidence of artisanal activities had already emerged in the 1980s.The systematic ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...